Lebanese Hezbollah TV reporter died of wounds from last week's Beirut bombing
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}A Lebanese man carries his belongings as he leaves his damaged house at the site of an explosion in a stronghold of the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Jan. 3, 2014. An explosion tore through a crowded commercial street Thursday in a south Beirut neighborhood that is bastion of support for the Shiite group Hezbollah, killing several people, setting cars ablaze and sending a column of black smoke above the Beirut skyline. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla) (The Associated Press)
A Lebanese reporter from Hezbollah's TV station has died of wounds sustained in last week's bombing of the militant Shiite group's stronghold in southern Beirut.
The Al-Manar TV says the 52-year-old Abbas Karnib, who worked for two decades for the Hezbollah-owned station, died at a Beirut hospital on Monday.
His death raises to five the number of people killed in Thursday's suicide bombing in Haret Hreik.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The explosion, which also wounded dozens, was the latest in a wave of attacks against the militant Hezbollah group in Lebanon.
An Al-Qaida-linked group fighting to topple President Bashar Assad in Syria claimed responsibility for the attack, calling it retaliation for Hezbollah's involvement in the Syrian civil war alongside Assad's troops.
Al-Manar said Karnib was married with four children.